An inter-sectoral framework for promoting and protecting mental health and psychosocial well-being in schools in low- and middle-income countries.

Schools are important agencies for preventive and promotive mental health interventions for children. However, In India, school mental health programmes are limited, first, in their coverage of sexuality and personal safety topics, and second, in responding to children's emergent health and social concerns. We worked in 162 government schools, reaching 21,234 children over 20 months.

Diagnostic Accuracy of Bedside Lung Ultrasound in Emergency Protocol for the Diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Failure.

Background: The multifactorial etiology of acute respiratory failure (ARF) often complicates diagnosis at an early stage of clinical presentation. Despite being a common life-threatening disorder, accurate and timely diagnosis is hindered by bad quality of bedside radiographs and nonavailability of immediate computed tomography imaging. This study was an attempt to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound in diagnosing ARF.

Thoracic aortic thrombosis as a cause of bowel ischemia. A case report.

Acute occlusion of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) is a devastating disease with a high mortality rate. Among its causes is thromboembolism from the heart or from an aortic aneurysm. The authors report a sixty-four-year-old woman who sustained acute occlusion of the SMA from a very large thrombus located on the medial wall of the thoracic aorta, unrelated to an aneurysm.